2011 OSA OPTICS & PHOTONICS
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and interpretation of Coriolis-activated
forbidden vibrational transitions, the
synthesis and vibrational analysis of
deuterated molecules, and the discovery of the anomalous
far-infrared spectra of
ring molecules. Toward
the end of his career,
he became interested in
biomolecules. His studies of the laser Raman
spectra of proteins and
nucleic acids opened
many new avenues of
research and laid the
groundwork for the
field of biophotonics.
Lord had a major
impact on the development of the MIT Spectroscopy Laboratory.
During his 30-year
tenure as director, the lab became interdepartmental, with broadened faculty
participation and expanded research
activities. The lab pioneered a variety of
vibrational studies of molecules as well
as seminal laser studies of the stimulated Raman and Brillouin effects and the
use of lasers for precision measurements
and ultrahigh resolution spectroscopy.
Lord died in 1989.
Seibert Quimby Duntley, 1965
Seibert Duntley was born in Bushnell,
Ill., U.S.A., on 2 October 1911. He
received an S.B. in physics from MIT in
1933. He received an M.S. degree from
the California Institute of Technology
in 1935 and an Sc.D. in physics from
MIT in 1939. While at MIT, Duntley
met and worked with Karl Taylor Compton, Harold Eugene Edgerton, and many
other prominent physicists. Duntley’s
primary interest was in applied physics,
particularly the optics of turbid media.
He started the Visibility Laboratory at
MIT in 1939. He came up with the idea
in collaboration with MIT physics chair
George R. Harrison. The lab was focused
on applying optics to marine defense is-
sues such as camouflage, the misdirection
of aerial bombardment, target location
and the visibility of submerged objects at
sea. In 1952, Duntley and Roger Revelle
decided that the laboratory would become
part of the Scripps Institution of Ocean-
ography in San Diego, and the U.S. Navy
Bureau of Ships agreed
to pay for the move.
The lab’s work focused
on the transmission of
visible light through the
atmosphere and water
and the related prob-
lems of image forma-
tion and recognition.
The Visibility Lab
that Duntley started
was focused on
applying optics to
marine defense issues
such as camouflage,
the misdirection of
aerial bombardment,
target location and the
visibility of submerged
objects at sea.
Upcoming
Deadlines
Imaging and Applied
Optics
10–14 JUly 2011
Toron To, CanaDa
• Adaptive Optics: Methods, Analysis
and Applications (AO)
• Application of Lasers for Sensing &
Free Space Communication (LS&C)
• Applied Industrial Optics:
Spectroscopy, Imaging, & Metrology
(AIO)
• Computational Optical Sensing and
Imaging (COSI)
• Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS)
• Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding
of the Environment (HISE)
• Imaging Systems Applications (IS)
• Signal Recovery & Synthesis (SRS)
Ho Tel reserva Tion DeaDline:
9 June 2011
Pre-regis Tra Tion DeaDline:
20 June 2011
Nonlinear Optics (NLO)
17–22 JUly 2011
KaUai, Hawaii, Usa
Ho Tel reserva Tion DeaDline:
24 June 2011
Pre-regis Tra Tion DeaDline:
20 June 2011
Joint International
Symposium on Optical
Memory & Optical Data
Storage (ISOM/ODS)
17–21 JUly 2011
KaUai, Hawaii, Usa
Ho Tel reserva Tion DeaDline:
15 June 2011
Pre-regis Tra Tion DeaDline:
20 June 2011
To regis Ter, visi T
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John N. Howard ( johnnelsonhoward@gmail.com)
is the founding editor of Applied Optics and
retired chief scientist of the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory.
